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Morella Cherries

A simple preserved cherry dish sweetened with equal weight powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Morella Cherries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the stalks from the cherries but do not pit them.

  2. Weigh the cherries and add an equal amount of powdered sugar.

  3. Strew the sugar over the cherries and let them sit for 30 minutes.

Cook

  1. Gently transfer the cherries to a preserving pan.

  2. Simmer the cherries softly for 5 to 7 minutes.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Cherries
Provide the fruit, whose juice is drawn out by the sugar to form the syrup.
Sugar
Draws moisture out of the cherries and sweetens the syrup as it dissolves.

The step that matters

Simmer the cherries softly. Gentle heat keeps the fruit intact while the sugar dissolves and the juices thicken. Boiling hard can toughen the skins and break the cherries apart.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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